Public Radio EP

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The Welcome proudly present
Public Radio

A collection of songs inspired and informed by NPR

Public Radio
Car Talk
This American Life
WireTap

All songs written by G. Miller
Arranged and performed by The Welcome

The Welcome is
Gehring Miller, Eric Baetz, Sarah Johnson, Jonah Kort & Casey Harding

Recorded August 2011 by Gehring Miller & Jonah Kort
at Villa Coola Studios, Oak Park, IL
Albany Studios, Evergreen Park, IL
and CarterCo Studios, Chicago, IL

Produced and Mixed by
Gehring Miller & Jonah Kort

Mastered by Bill Kavanagh at BobDog Studios, Oak Park, IL

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released 31 August 2011

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Track Name: Public Radio
Public Radio
 
Your first cup of coffee
Maybe your morning tea
Press a little plastic button
A voice begins to speak
Our hemisphere is waking
As the other one lies down
North America counts its blessings
And then takes a look around
 
All these people coming together
To bring you the news and the sports and the weather
Mornings and evenings and even at night
The voices are telling us how to get by
 
The interstate is waiting
Each weekday after 3
Like an overzealous mother
It hugs with too much squeeze
The cars are moving slowly
With itchy passengers
The radio, it soothes our tempers
With market averages
 
All these people coming together
To bring you the news and the sports and the weather
Mornings and evenings and even at night
The voices are telling us how to get by
All these people coming together
To bring you the news and the sports and the weather
I know you’ve been driving a lot on your own
Keep the radio close and let it guide you home

We are supported by listeners like you
So if you’re able, please help contribute
We have reported as best as we can
So if you’re able, please help lend a hand
[Repeat]
 
Chorus
Track Name: Car Talk
Car Talk
 
She needs help with her car
She can’t get it to run, run right
She’s turning to me
And I’m getting tongue, tongue-tied
 
Chorus:
I’m trying to be
The help that you need
I’m trying to speak Intelligently
 
She needs help with her car
Says she doesn’t feel safe behind the wheel
She’s turning to me
I just wanna be capable
 
Chorus
 
But this language won’t come easy
 
Car talk
Cars talk
Cars don’t talk
To me
 
Chorus
 
I don’t really know
How anything works
These words in my mouth
They just sound absurd
Track Name: This American Life
This American Life
 
This American life
Keeps me up at night
When I’m listening to the radio
 
The people and the places
Our nation is so spacious
Will I ever see it all?
 
Chorus:
I want to hit the road
And feel it shake
I want to drive all night
At a steady pace
We can sleep in shifts
And take it day by day
And always be on our way
 
This American life
Just to hear it described
Every evening on the radio
 
The cities and the towns
Different accents and their sounds
As they ask us where we’re from
 
Chorus

This American life
We can see it if we drive
And stay tuned into the radio

Always moving forward
Learning and exploring
We can be pioneers
 
Chorus

You and I
And the United States
Track Name: WireTap
Wiretap
 
Monday morning I check my messages
There’s one from Howard, he sounds desperate
“John, its me, I lost my keys
I need your help – Oh wait never mind, here they are”
 
Monday afternoon he calls again
And chews me out for being a bad friend
“Howard! I was sleeping
And besides, you found your keys”
 
He says it doesn’t matter
I should’ve known he needed me

This is trivial, this is typical
This is really how it goes
 
Tuesday afternoon, I’m in the studio
Getting some tapes ready for the radio
The phone rings and it’s Gregor
With a surefire moneymaker
 
He just needs some start-up cash
Once this thing takes off, he’ll pay me back
 
I say it sounds unlikely
He says that’s just like me:
Always shooting him down

Jonathon! Jonathon!
On and on and on again
This is how my week’s been
These recordings I’ve been keeping
All my friends and family
Calling, calling constantly
This is trivial, this is terrible
This is really what goes down
 
“Jonathon, it’s your mother
I thought I’d call you since you can’t be bothered
You’re probably just moping in the basement
I hope you’ve been eating breakfast
Please call me when you get this
And don’t wait three days like last time
 
Jonathon…
Jonathon...
 
This is trivial, this is typical
This is trivial, this is typical
This is trivial, this is typical
This is really what goes down